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Under-Use Of Hospice Care By Many Terminally Ill Patients: Study
Hospice, a well-established approach to palliative care, has enabled countless people worldwide to die with dignity. Through focusing on the patient rather than the disease, individuals can spend the last weeks of their lives in an environment where hospice caregivers minimize their pain, maximize their comfort, and provide bereavement services for loved ones and family members.
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'Tasting' Mechanism Used By Airway Cells To Detect And Clear Harmful Substances
The same mechanism that helps you detect bad-tasting and potentially poisonous foods may also play a role in protecting your airway from harmful substances, according to a study by scientists at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The findings could help explain why injured lungs are susceptible to further damage.
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Office Of The National Alzheimer's Project Act Will Produce A National Strategic Plan For Alzheimer's Research, Care, And Related Supportive Services
U.S. Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Evan Bayh (D-IN) introduced a measure to create a collaborated system for researching, treating and eliminating Alzheimer"s disease. The proposal will create an Office of the National Alzheimer"s Project within the White House, and will coordinate all research, clinical care and service toward the prevention, care, and cure of Alzheimer"s. This office will produce a national strategic plan to help assure that the millions of Americans who now have Alzheimer"s and the millions of potentially at-risk Americans will have a coordinated effort to target the 6th leading cause of death in the United States.
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Beth Israel Patients To Get A Look At Online Doctors' Notes

A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project called "open notes"" will make doctor"s notes available to as many as 35,000 patients online along with the rest of their medical records for a year, the Boston Globe reports. "Amid the national push to computerize medical records and make them more open to patients, one of the most intense areas of debate is whether patients should be allowed to see their doctors" notes online." According to the Globe, "[T]he notes usually aren"t readily available to patients because hospitals and doctors" groups fear that they will misunderstand medical jargon, take offense at a blunt observation, or worry unnecessarily about a precautionary test." As part of the project, "researchers hope to learn whether the notes prove more useful than objectionable." A doctor who is leading the study told the Globe that patients often don"t remember "what happens in the doctor"s office" (Kowalczyk, 6/19). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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